Our Wednesday News Analysis | Opinion | This Israeli Army General Has a Plan for Gaza: Starvation, Transfer and Genocide

FILE PHOTO: Palestinians crowd together as they wait for food distribution in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, November.Credit: Hatem Ali,AP

Maybe the enlightened public will object?

Don't worry.

The public that has abandoned the hostages will accept the starvation of civilians (and Arabs at that!) as easily as it's accepting the unnecessary war in Lebanon.

No one will call to throw Eiland's plan into the garbage, just like no one has called to stop the bloody adventure in Lebanon.

The public knows that the war could have been stopped if the corrupt prime minister and a coterie of guilt-ridden generals wanted that.

Wait a minute, what about the transfer?

Oh, who cares!

In this war we have learned that what you don't see, you don't know. And when you don't know, you don't react. Neither emotionally or practically. We have learned that life is easier when you know as little as possible, when reality is hidden by the "psychological terror" argument.

According to reports, "hundreds" have been killed in Lebanon, and "tens of thousands" in Gaza. Great. Be satisfied with that. Don't bother. We don't want to know any more.

We feed on propaganda. The information provided to us is not chosen according to what we need to know, but according to what television wants us to know. They're right. The last thing we want to know is how many 10-year-olds were killed in Gaza, in Lebanon, or by exploding pagers. Any such information is psychological terror that damages our fighting spirit and lowers morale...

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In killing Nasrallah, Israel chose to open the gates of hell. We will all pay the price

Source: Jonathan Cook Blog
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-09-29/killing-nasrallah-israel-price/

By Jonathan Cook
Published September 29, 2024

The West, via Israel, is fomenting for Hezbollah and the Shia resistance their own ISIS moment. Moderates are once again losing the argument – because we lost it for them

Hezbollah has confirmed that its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was among the hundreds of Lebanese killed in Israel’s massive bombardment of a suburb of Beirut last night.

The role of Western establishments will be to cry victim,
to insist, “They hate us for our freedoms,”
for our civilizational superiority,
because “they” are simply barbarians.

But what comes next, as with what came before,
will be entirely predictable.

Israel’s decision to assassinate Nasrallah, using some of the enormous bunker-busting bombs the United States has been arming it with, is beyond foolhardy. It is outright deranged. Israel has removed – and knows it has removed – a moderating influence on Hezbollah.

Israel’s action will achieve nothing apart from teaching his successor, and leaders of other groups and countries labelled as terrorist by western governments, several lessons:

* That Israel, and the West standing squarely behind it, do not play by any known rules of engagement, and that their opponents must do likewise. The current restraint from Hezbollah that has been so baffling western pundits will become a thing of the past.

* That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death – not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel.

* That Israel’s ideological extremism – its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum – must be met with even greater Shia-inspired extremism.

Decades of western terrorism in the Middle East unleashed a Sunni nihilism embodied first in al-Qaeda and then in ISIS...

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THE WAR OF LEGITIMACY: HOW THE ICJ AND UNGA CHALLENGED DECADES OF ISRAEL, US ARROGANCE

Source: Middle East Monitor
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240926-the-war-of-legitimacy-how-the-icj-and-unga-challenged-decades-of-israel-us-arrogance/

By Dr Ramzy Baroud
Published September 26, 2024

Several people were present during an emergency rally for the defense of the Palestinian State in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 27 May 2024 in Madrid, Spain. [Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press via Getty Images]

I believe that the Palestinians will liberate themselves.

However, the position of the international community remains significant as it re-emphasizes the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle, creates space for solidarity, and helps further marginalize Israel for its continued violations of international law and the rights of the Palestinian people.

Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine took place on 19 July and 18 September. The first was a most comprehensive “advisory opinion” by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which reiterated that the Israeli occupation of Palestine is illegal and must come to an immediate end. The second arrived two months later, when the UN General Assembly set, for the first time in history, an exact time frame for when the Israeli occupation of Palestine must end.

Many Palestinians welcomed the international consensus that essentially declared to be null and void any Israeli attempt to make what is meant to be a temporary military occupation permanent. However, many were not impressed, understandably so, simply because the international community has proven ineffectual in bringing the catastrophic Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza to an end, or in enforcing its previous resolutions on the matter.

Israeli media largely ignored both events, while mainstream Western media repeatedly emphasised that both the advisory opinion and the resolution are “non-binding”. This is true. However, as former UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard said twenty years ago, the laws and conventions upon which advisory opinions are based “are binding”, not least the Fourth Geneva Convention. [See Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine…, Clarity Press, 2022, p19]...

Read more: The war of legitimacy: how the ICJ and UNGA challenged decades of Israel, US arrogance